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The kingdom's sweeping redevelopment in the city of Jeddah is displacing hundreds of thousands of residents, many of them from working-class immigrant communities.

The idea behind Americans Elect was to create an alternative system for finding the candidates, independent of the two major parties and based in the limitless possibilities of the internet.

Journalist Howard Bryant discusses the history of social protest among African-American athletes. His new book, The Heritage, traces the tradition back to Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali and others.

Companies like EasyKnock offer to help people in financial trouble by buying their home and renting it back. An NPR investigation finds the deals cost some people a lot of money and even their homes.

His sinister, surreal vision of America made him a leading counterculture auteur — with movies such as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive, and the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks.

Even before news broke of the devastating lead contamination of the water in Flint, Michigan, our WGLT newsroom was in the process of exploring the future…

Lucinda McCray is a former professor at Illinois State University and author of multiple books, including "Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County 1830-1995."

With dense forests and rugged beauty, Grindstone Island is a favorite summer getaway for visitors — and some of them never want to leave. The island near the Canadian border has one official cemetery, but locals say that hundreds of people are buried there, in unofficial gravesites.

WGLT's latest reporting about Illinois State University, where the station is based.

In a town that birthed House music and wears Blues music on its sleeve, Kent Rose is an outlier in the Chicago area. A child of the 1950's and 60's, Rose…